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Who is Mariann Budde, the bishop who told Trump to 'have mercy'?

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    10% Center

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    65% ReliableAverage

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53% : Trump later told news crews regarding the service, which featured representatives of the Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Christian and other faiths.
48% : Here's a closer look at Budde's comments on Tuesday and her history with Trump.
47% : What did Bishop Budde say to Trump during the inaugural prayer service?
46% : Nearing the end of Budde's sermon on unity Tuesday, she turned to Trump, sitting just feet away in the front row.
45% : Two years later, she was one of three religious leaders who in 2019 wrote a statement posted on the cathedral's website that read in part: "After two years of President Trump's words and actions, when will Americans have enough?" Then about a year later, her public resistance to Trump went viral, in June 2020.
41% : " How did Trump and other conservatives respond to Budde's sermon? Trump did not speak at the service, which was closed to the public and came at the start of his first full day in office.
40% : "They could do much better." Just after midnight Wednesday morning, Trump called Budde a "Radical Left hard line Trump hater," in a post on Truth Social.
40% : Later that day, Budde told The Post, she attended the Women's March on Washington, which drew more than a million protesters vowing to resist Trump.
37% : Budde pleaded with Trump to consider "the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals.
37% : She added that she wasn't given a heads-up of his appearance and added that she didn't "want President Trump speaking for St. John's." "Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence," Budde said at the time.
31% : " Trump has vowed to oversee the largest deportation effort in U.S. history.
29% : " Trump supporters were critical of Budde on social media, as well.

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